The Windsor Essex County Well being Unit (WECHU) is one step nearer to establishing a protected consumption and remedy web site downtown after metropolis council authorized a proposed location throughout Monday night time’s council assembly.
Council members voted 6-5 in favour of a movement to help the WECHU’s utility to the province to ascertain a web site at 101 Wyandotte Avenue East.
Council debated the difficulty again in January, voting 6-5 in favour of a web site down the highway at 628 Goyeau Avenue, nonetheless, that deal fell by with the constructing proprietor.
On the time, councillors heard from the well being unit about the necessity to set up a supervised consumption and remedy web site within the metropolis, highlighting that emergency division visits, EMS calls and opioid overdose deaths have all elevated because the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In accordance with knowledge from the well being unit, overdoses have practically quadrupled since 2016, with 416 in 2021, the very best quantity ever logged.
Dilkens, who opposed the movement, spoke out about his reasoning, stating he didn't consider the situation was the correct match.
“We’ve already had the talk on this specific difficulty a few months in the past and I feel it was unanimous on the time that everybody on council mentioned ‘let’s help it however let’s discover a place the place it is sensible,’” he mentioned.
“Nearly all of council opted to maneuver ahead with a location on Goyeau Avenue. This one now strikes it proper to the intersection of Wyandotte Avenue and Goyeau. And I'd, for the document, I consider it’s a foul location initially and that is really, making it worse so I simply can’t help this movement.”
The Wyandotte St. location was one among two websites initially proposed.
The well being unit can now transfer ahead with its utility to the Ontario Ministry of Well being and Well being Canada which required municipal help.
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